Virtual Commons offers open access copies of Commonwealth and Departmental Honors Program theses and projects completed by undergraduate students who have submitted them electronically since 2013. The authors of these documents retain copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form.

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Theses/Projects from 2022

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1000 Ways A Black Woman Dies: Stories from the Waiting Room, An original play, Britney Lee-Anne Mallebranche

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“I Feel Like This is the Best Thing I'm Good At”- Butter: Exploring Vulnerabilities to Sex Work Through YouTube, Beranda Marseile

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Vertex-Magic Graphs, Karissa Massud

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Exploring the Binding of Anticancer Drug BI-3802 with DNA Using Optical Tweezers, Jared McAuliffe

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Greater Brockton’s Perception Towards Police, Jamiya McConnell

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Black History in the Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms: Teacher Beliefs and Practices, Shannon McCormack

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Characterization of Exosomes and Their Role in Cellular Migration in Chemosensitive and Chemoresistant Ovarian Cancer Cells, Courtney McEneaney

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Vertex-Magic Total Labeling on G-sun Graphs, Melissa Mejia

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The Unequal Application of the Death Penalty in the United States: Critical Analysis and a Just Solution, Muriel Mena

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Portrait of a Prostitute: A Feminist Analysis of The Victorian Sex Worker in 19th Century Art and Literature, Marissa Merlino

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Let’s Play! The Power of Play as a Teaching Tool in the Elementary and Early Childhood Classroom, Jessica Moore

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How Slavery is Taught in Schools, Aidan Mordas

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Blood Sugar: A Collection of Essays on the Highs and Lows of Diabetes, Annalisa Morganelli

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¿Pretérito o Imperfecto?: Advancing Spanish Past Tense Instruction for World Language Teachers and their L2 Classroom, Jake Murray

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Black Lives Matter vs. Anti-Lockdownand Stop the Steal: How Framing Affects Political Protests, Tarah Pierre-Louis

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How Technology Has Changed the Field of Accounting, Emmanuel J. Quinto II

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Holes Where People Go, Lucienne Quirk

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The Human Connection of Travel: Why Air Travel Will Never Go Away, Maimunah Qureshi

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Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed and the God of Change, Mercedes Alayna Reid-X

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Supporting Children with Selective Mutism in Early Childhood Education Classrooms, Ashley Resendes

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Indigenous Women’s Resistance and Healing from Colonial Violence: A Study of literature and Art, Demi Riendeau

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Bridging the Gap Between Language and Content: Teachers’ Views on Technology, Emma Rohan

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The Role of Multi-Sensory Learning in Elementary Classrooms on Student Development, Amanda Romaine

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Microplastics in the Marine Environment and Deep-Sea Sediment Contamination: A Review, Elizabeth Sangiolo

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Multi-species Multi-seasonal Wildlife Occupancy along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient in Southeastern Massachusetts, Bobbi M. Scully

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Culturally Responsive Teaching, Kimberly Shorey

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Accommodating Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Math: Developing Fact Fluency, Rory Sneyd

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Data Engineering Techniques and Designs with Music Generating Neural Networks, Noah Solomon

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“I’m Not Just a Sex Robot”: Perceptions of Stigma in Online Sex Workers, Clover Stutz

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Utilizing Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Modern U.S. Classroom, Jessica Sweeney

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Marvel-ous Women: Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, and the Representation of Female Superheroes, Alexis Lee Tavares

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Blood Quantum? Native DNA? Indigenous Lineage? The Complexities of Native Authenticity and Identity, Grace Thayer

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Moving Elementary School English Learners Forward: Understanding How COVID-era School Disruptions Impacted English Learner Education, Danielle Vissering

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Using Optical Tweezersto Probe DNA Polymerase Kappa’s Binding Mechanism to DNA, Joshua Watts

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Tag Your Friends for a Chance to Read This Paper: Self-Monitoring and Renumeration Posts on Social Media, Andrea Weng

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Treatment of the Mentally Ill in the U.S. Gilded Age, Madeline Whelan

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Reverberation Mapping of Markarian 421 using V,R, I, and Ha Filters, Alex Whitman

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The Effects of Multilingual Learning on Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development in Children, Jasmine Won

Theses/Projects from 2021

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We’re Here to Get You There: A Statistical Analysis of Bridgewater State University’s Transit System, Abigail Adams

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STEM Education in the Early Childhood Classroom, Julia Biagiotti

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Everyday Trauma: Narrativizing the Self in Chris Ware’s Graphic Novels, Jacob Bibeault

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Are We Giving Them a Fair Chance? Racial Stereotypes and the Juvenile Justice System, Cali Bloem

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A University Student’s Perspective on Financial Literacy, Matthew Braley

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Roller Coaster Acceleration, Olivia Briggs

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Masculine and Feminine Norms that Affect Perceptions of Male Contraceptives, Lia Cocomazzi

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Shakespeare and The Chronicles: The Test Case of Richard II, Brandon Coimbra

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Gun Ownership Rates and Opinions on Gun Control among Immigrants and Individuals Born in the United States., Patrick Michael Cummings

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Can Family Formation as a Source of Parental Strain Contribute to Juvenile Delinquency Using a GST Approach?, Maggie Czarniak

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The Air That Moves Between Us, Maia Lynn Daschke

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Physiological and Metabolic Strain Differences in Response to Constant Light in Male Mice, Hannah V. Deane